Third-party reinsurance capital news

Stonybrook Capital, a specialist strategic advisory and investment banking firm focused exclusively on the insurance and reinsurance industry, has announced the hiring of Darren Bailey to lead efforts to grow the Stonybrook business internationally and also support the firm’s US domestic business.

Earlier this year, rating agency AM Best and reinsurance broker Guy Carpenter had projected that third-party capital in reinsurance, so alternative capital or insurance-linked securities (ILS) market capacity, would end 2023 at $99 billion, but the market has actually outpaced this forecast.

The two reinsurers established as underwriting vehicles for RenaissanceRe’s Fontana Holdings third-party capitalised casualty and specialty reinsurance focused joint venture have had their capital augmented, rating agency AM Best said also recognising the likelihood of Fontana’s reinsurers delivering profits and positive income in most periods.

Sources of retrocessional reinsurance capital appear in greater supply at this January renewal season than a year ago, which has applied some pressure to rates-on-line at higher, more remote layers, while also shifting more of the balance of power back towards buyers in some cases, we understand.

As the saga over Vesttoo moves rapidly towards the insurtech’s bankruptcy and liquidation, while the amounts available to claimants in the Chapter 11 case are minimal compared to the damage caused by the fraud that occurred, there are a range of administrative efforts still needed, one of which is the shuttering of investment fund structures […]

The plan of reorganisation under Chapter 11 for the bankruptcy of beleaguered insurtech Vesttoo has been conditionally approved by the Delaware court judge and can now go to a vote, but documents show that the eventual recovery for unsecured creditors may be minimal.

This video features an expert panel discussing both catastrophe bond and private insurance-linked securities (ILS) market trends from our Artemis London 2023 conference, that was held in London on September 5th 2023.

Global reinsurance giant Munich Re has returned to the capital markets to refresh its retrocessional protection from the Eden Re II Ltd. collateralized reinsurance sidecar for 2024, with the first tranche of notes to come to light being $28.5 million of Series 2024-1 Class A notes.

Today, we are excited to announce the second wave of speakers confirmed for our next insurance-linked securities (ILS) conference. ILS NYC 2024 will be held in New York City on February 9th 2024, with around 400 attendees from the ILS community expected to come together for a day of thought-leadership, discussion and valuable networking.

It appears that, in aggregate, creditors to the bankruptcy of forged reinsurance letter of credit (LOC) linked insurtech Vesttoo have filed over $4.8 billion in claims against the company and its entities, which provides another signal of the ramifications of and amount of value the market feels has been lost due to the fraud.